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Posted By: Red

When the top surface was peeled off the 1952 Bowman and T206 cards above did the lower layers show any ink from bleed through? I doubt it because ink applied in a printing process is going to behave and look different than ink applied from a watery stamp that's allowed to soak in and stain the card. The ink from the stamp isn't much different than if you soaked the card in grape juice. You'll have a purple T206 with the red printed ink looking like it's floating on the surface.

Somebody on here has to have some T206's that have names or something stamped on the back. All you have to do is look at the cards at an angle under magnification and you'll see that the original T206 printing looks like it's sitting on top of whatever stamp was there, just like the photo above shows. The stamps were made with a thin water based ink that soaks into the card as opposed to the original T206 printing that's sitting on top of the card. The ink used in professional printing would sit on top of the card surface and not soak in. Even if way too much printing ink was used and it somehow seeped down to the lower layers you're not going to have a sharper reproduction of what the original stamp looked like in the lower layers after you ripped off a few layers of paper.